San Francisco, CA, August 26, 2008 – Riverbed Technology (Nasdaq: RVBD), the technology and market leader in wide-area data services (WDS), today announced that Le Coq Sportif, a leading France-based international sports and lifestyle textile manufacturer, has deployed Riverbed® Steelhead® appliances to accelerate application performance, optimize bandwidth utilization and enable IT consolidation without application performance compromise to remote workers. Due to an increasingly distributed and growing workforce, as well as Le Coq Sportif’s reliance on the seamless sharing of large graphic and design files between sites, the company sought to improve application performance to increase collaboration and improve the user experience.

Le Coq Sportif selected the Riverbed WDS solution because it addressed all of their application acceleration, bandwidth savings and usability needs. Many data transfers between Le Coq Sportif employees now move 30 times faster – a reduction from hours to minutes – and subsequent file edits and retransfers have been further reduced to just a few seconds. The Riverbed Steelhead appliance has also been able to help Le Coq Sportif cut costs by eliminating 65 to 75 percent of Le Coq Sportif’s high-volume application traffic, increasing wide area network (WAN) capacity with no additional investment in physical capacity.

Riverbed WDS solutions proved to offer greater ROI than the alternatives of either undergoing a costly bandwidth upgrade or the implementation of other WDS products that were considered, such as Citrix WANScaler. Steve Schmitt, IT manager at Le Coq Sportif, says, "Many organizations assess ROI by using financial costs, and for us these hard savings are large enough to pay for the investment. Financial savings come both from the avoidance of costly bandwidth upgrades and the reduction in IT management costs. By reducing the amount of data traversing the WAN, the savings in bandwidth costs alone paid for our investment in Riverbed."

Le Coq Sportif also consolidated the company’s existing IT infrastructure to a centralized site to improve data management. Riverbed Steelhead appliances allow Le Coq Sportif to avoid the performance issues generally associated with moving data further away from the end user. This results in increased collaborative abilities among the distributed workforce, ultimately allowing Le Coq Sportif to increase the size of its employee base without worrying about the performance issues typically encountered by a distributed workforce.

Schmitt continued, "We found Riverbed to be much more effective at optimizing bandwidth than any of the alternatives. We were able to improve bandwidth capacity utilization, and no longer needed costly WAN upgrades. The combination of bandwidth optimization, coupled with protocol acceleration, resulted in a significant increase in throughput across our global WAN."

The Riverbed WDS solutions will support future growth at Le Coq Sportif, while continuing to improve IT productivity with minimal additional financial investment. Schmitt says, "Even more impressive cost savings will come from our future growth – we are expanding rapidly, opening offices in Taiwan and two other countries. Our cost and time to set up IT in each of these new locations is a fraction of what it would have been previous to the WDS deployment. And our current bandwidth is enough to handle this expansion. Future cost savings are potentially larger than even current savings."

About Le Coq Sportif
Le Coq Sportif www.lecoqsportif.com, the French sporting manufacturer established in 1882 by Emile Camuset, supplied all the great athletes, clubs, federations and competitions in Europe throughout the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. The "tricolour" brand begins a new chapter reinforcing its historical philosophy of authenticity elegance and uniqueness.

Steelhead Products
Riverbed WDS solutions enable organizations of all sizes to overcome a host of severe problems, including poor application performance and insufficient bandwidth at remote sites. By speeding the performance of applications between data centers, remote offices and mobile workers by five to 50 times and in some cases up to 100 times, the Riverbed award-winning Steelhead WDS products enable companies to consolidate IT, improve backup and replication processes to ensure data integrity, and improve staff productivity and collaboration. Steelhead products have been deployed in organizations ranging from the world’s largest corporations with offices around the globe to small companies with a couple of sites that are just miles apart. To learn more, view Riverbed’s demo: www.riverbed.com/pr/jack.

Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements relating to the expected demand for Riverbed's products and services, and statements relating to Riverbed’s ability to meet the needs of distributed organizations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions that, if they do not fully materialize or prove incorrect, could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties that could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements include our ability to react to trends and challenges in our business and the markets in which we operate; our ability to anticipate market needs or develop new or enhanced products to meet those needs; the adoption rate of our products; our ability to establish and maintain successful relationships with our distribution partners; our ability to compete in our industry; fluctuations in demand, sales cycles and prices for our products and services; shortages or price fluctuations in our supply chain; our ability to protect our intellectual property rights; general political, economic and market conditions and events; and other risks and uncertainties described more fully in our documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. More information about these and other risks that may impact Riverbed’s business are set forth in our Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on July 29, 2008. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to us as of the date hereof, and we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements. Any future product, feature or related specification that may be referenced in this release are for information purposes only and are not commitments to deliver any technology or enhancement. Riverbed reserves the right to modify future product plans at any time.

About Riverbed
Riverbed Technology is the technology and market leader in wide-area data services (WDS) solutions for companies worldwide. By enabling application performance over the wide area network (WAN) that is orders of magnitude faster than what users experience today, Riverbed is changing the way people work, and enabling a distributed workforce that can collaborate as if they were local. Additional information about Riverbed (Nasdaq: RVBD) is available at www.riverbed.com.

Riverbed Technology, Riverbed, Steelhead, RiOS, Interceptor, and the Riverbed logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Riverbed Technology, Inc. All other trademarks used or mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.

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